Shooting Star Emoji 🌠
Emoji Meaning
When an asteroid reaches the planet's atmosphere, it usually burns off due to friction against the air. This is clearly visible in the night sky. Such an asteroid is called a meteorite, or a shooting star.
The symbol “Shooting Star” is included in the “Moon, sun, and star symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Sky & Weather” subcategory of the “Travel & Places” category.
Synonyms
Meteor, meteoroid, when you wish upon a star.
| Unicode Name | Shooting Star |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Moon, sun, and star symbols |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Travel & Places |
| Emoji Subcategory | Sky & Weather |
| Emoji Name | Shooting Star |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F320 |
| Simple case change | 1F320 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 8C A0 | 240 159 140 160 | 4036988064 | 11110000 10011111 10001100 10100000 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3C DF 20 | 216 60 223 32 | 3627867936 | 11011000 00111100 11011111 00100000 |
| UTF-16LE | 3C D8 20 DF | 60 216 32 223 | 1020797151 | 00111100 11011000 00100000 11011111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F3 20 | 0 1 243 32 | 127776 | 00000000 00000001 11110011 00100000 |
| UTF-32LE | 20 F3 01 00 | 32 243 1 0 | 552796416 | 00100000 11110011 00000001 00000000 |
